mtblujeans
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When we bought our house, the people living in it had trashed it so we had to replace all the flooring and some of the subflooring. I put Bruce laminate on the stairs, a long hallway, living room, dining room, and kitchen. We have a long gravel driveway and I leave windows open when I can. This makes our house very dusty. The floor is constantly, constantly dirty. I find it hard to keep the dust up. I have to vacuum AND swiffer to get it all off the floors. The vacuum cleaner alone is not enough. And you can feel the dust and dirt on the floor when walking with bare feet.
The first week after we had moved in I made some pizza for dinner. I was putting slices of very hot pizza on plates and as I turned to take them to the table, 1 slice slid off the plate and landed cheese side down on the laminate. I had to put the plates down and go to the sink to get something wet to clean it up with. I was thinking the whole time that by the time I get over there to clean it up it will have melted the floor ('cause I know that would have melted vinyl). When I got back over there to clean it up, there was not a mark left. No melting, no mark. I was impressed.
However, we did have a situation in the kitchen where the kids pulled the garbage bag out of its container and left it on the floor over night. When I grabbed it to take it out, the bag had leaked and gone down into the seams of the floor. The flooring had absorbed the leakage around the seams and the flooring raised up there. It has never gone back down. I tried cleaning it and using Febreze and drying it with a blow dryer but that spot in the floor has never gone down and it is like a lump in the floor. I think that is what they mean about not using water on the flooring. You can wipe it down with something wet, but you are supposed to go back over it and dry it right away because if water gets in the seams it will swell up like a pressed board would.
I was told I had to use a special cleaner on the flooring when I had installed. I have used wet swiffers on it and the wand does not allow you to use enough pressure to really get it clean. So, I have bought a mop I just use on that flooring and I have to go back over the wet flooring with a towel to dry it.
The flooring looks real nice ~ when it is clean. But, it is a pain to keep it up. I would go to a better quality vinyl in the rooms you are considering.
The first week after we had moved in I made some pizza for dinner. I was putting slices of very hot pizza on plates and as I turned to take them to the table, 1 slice slid off the plate and landed cheese side down on the laminate. I had to put the plates down and go to the sink to get something wet to clean it up with. I was thinking the whole time that by the time I get over there to clean it up it will have melted the floor ('cause I know that would have melted vinyl). When I got back over there to clean it up, there was not a mark left. No melting, no mark. I was impressed.
However, we did have a situation in the kitchen where the kids pulled the garbage bag out of its container and left it on the floor over night. When I grabbed it to take it out, the bag had leaked and gone down into the seams of the floor. The flooring had absorbed the leakage around the seams and the flooring raised up there. It has never gone back down. I tried cleaning it and using Febreze and drying it with a blow dryer but that spot in the floor has never gone down and it is like a lump in the floor. I think that is what they mean about not using water on the flooring. You can wipe it down with something wet, but you are supposed to go back over it and dry it right away because if water gets in the seams it will swell up like a pressed board would.
I was told I had to use a special cleaner on the flooring when I had installed. I have used wet swiffers on it and the wand does not allow you to use enough pressure to really get it clean. So, I have bought a mop I just use on that flooring and I have to go back over the wet flooring with a towel to dry it.
The flooring looks real nice ~ when it is clean. But, it is a pain to keep it up. I would go to a better quality vinyl in the rooms you are considering.
